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Yep - I have been stunned a couple of times with furniture which was in situ before some building alterations that looked as if they would hinder removal - the professional removal men took each item out at some speed with no problem at all (y)

Not sure what I had when you came here - now have 2 off Van Nic Ti (tourer & road), PlanetX carbon road and Boardman Adv "motorcycle" - ebike with Fazua system (y)

Precisely what I meant . . . although the angle cuts could be classed as luxuries!

I agree with James - but what about just fixing 4 small blocks inside the frame above the wheel plates, glued and screwed to the base rails - then you have a bit more support and use a longer screw through the wheel plate. AND - again per James - from experience don't use wheels less than about...

Good value but from what I have seen of one in the flesh it's a bit flimsy compared with the blue Scheppach machine they sell at £100 which is much heavier construction (that's also been sold as Ferrex in the past)

Don't people use proper carpenters' wooden suitcase style toolboxes any more?

This is the result - some panels in the coloured stain and some in wood colour stains (the latter being oddments I had on the shelf) The colours applied very easily and got into the wood - two coats were fine for what I was making, just a recalimed pallet - with a 2 coats of yacht varnish, and...

I'll report back on them - I'm getting Poppy, Cobalt & Sunflower to stain some surfaced pallet timber for an arty "installation" in our garden . . . plan to stain some of the panels in the colours and some in various woodshades (Chestnut products) that I already have - and then yacht varnish...

Have a look at AG Woodcare's Village Green Stain range . . . lots of colours (I'm going there tomorrow to get 3 small bottles for an experimental "pallet art" project)

I'd describe them as "single-use" unless you're only routing balsawood! Very poor, losing the edge very quickly. Silverline seems to have a mixed bag of products (mostly re-badged copies) - some reasonable, some dire.

It's the misquote in the title that annoys me - It's GLISTERS not Glitters - it's from Shakespeare

Hmm - the products look quite good but to appear to be "solid oak" but not solid oak as one might expect - looks like loads of thinner than normal strips laminated together to make boards (a bit like Oak Furniturelan stuff) - rather than the more usual wider boards in oak kitchens?

I don't think I can tolerate any more of the dreadful Mel the presenter - and the woodwork "ideas & projects" aren't a lot better. It's NO from me.

Back in the 50s'60s/70s Liden Whitewood (in Lea Bridge Road, London E10) made kitchen and other furniture with frames and thin plywood - supplied un-painted. Liden was one of a large number of furniture makers in the E/NE London area - the North Circular at Edmonton was home to Nathan...

I've made a few of the things he's done - it's satisfying and good fun . . . and if it all goes wrong all you've lost is time and some fixings/glue - rather than expensive wood.

This bloke has something to say on the subject - and his pallet projects are pretty cool

Yes - I make quite a bit of stuff* from pallet timber . . . but you need to be selective with the original pallets in terms of condition and how they are nailed together. Most are just machine nailed into blocks or wider battens but some have nails that are bent as they emerge from the slats -...

The stops (or countersinks) that fix to the drill bit with a grub-screw into the spiral are unreliable, slipping and moving - the Rutland ones with a clamp force look like a better idea - worth a punt for a tenner?

Storage unit with a drawer and pull-out tray next to our coffee machine (just the column to the left of the cupboard/bookshelf - they're repurposed from a base cupboard and dresser unit that were elsewhere in the kitchen) 18mm MR MDF, a length of new oak for the lipping and re-using bits of...

.... and at Lewes in Sussex.